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Darren Major

'Throw them out' of Parliament: Poilievre in favour of recall petition for floor-crossers - Liberal sources say party is speaking with 9 more opposition MPs about joining caucus

After losing another of his MPs to the Liberals, Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he personally supports recall petitions — a way for constituents to remove a representative if they garner enough local support. "When a member of Parliament goes back on the word they made to their constituents and switches parties, constituents should be able to petition to throw...

Sarah Ritchie, Catherine Morrison

Poilievre fires back at questions about his leadership after fourth floor crossing

Pierre Poilievre was defiant on Thursday in the face of questions about his leadership of the Conservative party after a fourth member of his caucus defected to the Liberals this week. He reminded reporters that a "record-smashing 8.3 million Canadians" voted Conservative last year. "Our mandate, and my leadership, does not come from dirty backroom deals. It comes from the...

Sarah Ritchie, Catherine Morrison

Fourth floor-crossing weakens Poilievre's leadership, former Harper staffer says

A former top aide to Stephen Harper says Marilyn Gladu's decision to leave the Conservative party for the Liberals is raising questions about Pierre Poilievre's leadership. "I think this floor crosser, more than the previous ones, weakens his leadership," said Dimitri Soudas, who was former prime minister Stephen Harper's director of communications. "Not just because of the fact that it's...

Bruce Anderson

Most Canadians prefer a NATO without the US, to a NATO that bows to Trump's demands.

Formed in 1949, in the wake of a world war which cost tens of millions of lives, 12 countries signed the NATO charter in Washington, D.C. The aims were to deter Soviet expansionism, to prevent the rise of nationalistic militarism in Europe, and to promote European integration. A lot has changed, in Trump’s America.

Rachel Aiello

PM Carney says talked to Gladu about social issues, says she ‘will vote with the government’

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he spoke to longtime Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu before she crossed the floor to join the Liberals about her previous positions on social issues, and he’s been reassured that she “will vote with the government.” “To be clear, the Liberal Party always will support the rights of women to choose, always without question. And I...

Polls

Bruce Anderson

Most Canadians prefer a NATO without the US, to a NATO that bows to Trump's demands.

Nik Nanos

Reducing fuel-related taxes top recommendation to federal government in response to higher gas prices. More than one in three report driving less because of gas hike.

This research gauged the opinions of Canadians on rising gas prices and the actions they are taking to in response and how the federal government should be responding.

Opinion

Krista Scaldwell

Canada’s Patchwork of Recycling Systems Is Driving Up Costs for Everyone

Ryan Peterson

Build faster than the Gulf can rebuild

News

Sean Boynton

NATO chief says he understands Trump’s ‘disappointment’ with allies on Iran

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday he understands U.S. President Donald Trump’s “disappointment” in the alliance for not immediately helping him with his war with Iran, but also backed Trump’s decision to not inform allies ahead of time. Speaking at the Ronald Reagan Institute in Washington a day after meeting with Trump privately to discuss the president’s criticisms, Rutte expressed...

Steven Chase

Canada seeking observer role in sixth generation fighter project

Canada is talking to Britain, Japan and Italy about obtaining observer status in their joint program to develop a next-generation fighter aircraft. Ottawa is sending letters to all three countries formally requesting this, a senior Canadian government official said. The Globe is not identifying the source because they were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Politician's Pen

Pragmeet Sarkaria

Ontario transportation minister: This is why we are taking over Billy Bishop

There has been a lot of debate in recent weeks about the province’s decision to take over the City of Toronto’s role in the agreement governing Billy Bishop Airport and to acquire the city-owned lands at the airport. Some have asked why the province would take such a step. The answer is that Billy Bishop is a critical piece of...

Steven Del Duca

As mayor of Vaughan, I’m urging Mark Carney to meet our Jewish community

I have an urgent request for Prime Minister Mark Carney: please come to Vaughan, Ont., to meet with our Jewish community. As Vaughan’s mayor, I want you to know that Jews here feel angry, scared, defiant, tired, shocked and beleaguered. Who can blame them? I’ve lived my entire life in this country, but I have never before witnessed the shocking...

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Paul Wells

Gladu could make it - What we can learn from a match made in Carneyland

By now, interested readers will be able to find all sorts of reminders that, before she crossed the figurative floor to the Liberals on Wednesday, Marilyn Gladu had a reputation in Ottawa as an eccentric at best, and a loose cannon at worst. Her Wikipedia entry features expressions like “hydroxychloroquine” and “conversion therapy.” Scanning reactions to the Sarnia MP’s defection...

Fred Delorey

Carney risks creating a Frankenstein caucus

My jaw is on the floor. Marilyn Gladu just crossed the aisle to the Liberals, and I am struggling to find the structural logic in a move this cold. As a veteran strategist and former National Campaign Manager, I’ve been involved with backroom politics for so long it’s fair to say the majority of my adult life has been lived...

Althia Raj

Mark Carney’s latest floor crosser tests more than the size of the Liberal tent

With one warm floor-crossing welcome, Prime Minister Mark Carney challenged Wednesday what it means to be a Liberal, gave his primary opponent a big wake-up call, and planted the seeds for simmering caucus discontent. A day before Liberals gather in Montreal for their biennial convention — Carney’s first as leader — the prime minister embraced four-term Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong Conservative MP Marilyn...

Don Braid

Another Conservative MP crosses; Liberals will have their majority Monday

Sarnia Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu backed the trucker blockade in Ottawa, along with a bill that would force floor-crossers to quit and run again. On Wednesday, however, she crossed the floor to become a newly-minted Liberal for Prime Minister Mark Carney — the fifth of her kind. There’s no quit in this politician. A less obvious Liberal than Gladu you...

Aaron Wherry

Carney’s Liberals are attracting support from unlikely places

During his brief and ill-fated time as leader of the Liberal Party, Michael Ignatieff invited Canadians to join him inside the "big red tent." This appeal obviously did not work out for Ignatieff. But perhaps he was merely ahead of his time. Fifteen years after Ignatieff's time as Liberal leader came to a sudden end, Mark Carney is exploring just...

John Ivison

Carney’s floor-crosser power play is playing with explosives

The news that Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu is crossing the floor to join the Liberal caucus, effectively guaranteeing Prime Minister Mark Carney a parliamentary majority, has not been hailed universally by her constituents. “She thinks she knows better than her voters?” said one resident of Sarnia–Lambton–Bkejwanong on social media. “What is the flipping point? You wonder why people get radicalized...

Lori Turnbull

Mark Carney’s Most Unlikely Defector

Of all the floor-crossers who’ve inched Prime Minister Mark Carney closer to a majority in the past six months, Marilyn Gladu won the award Wednesday for generating the most spit-takes. Just in time to attend the Liberal Party National Convention in Montreal this weekend, Gladu — a very Conservative member of Parliament since 2015 — announced that she had defected...

Brad Wall

We know bad floor crossings when we see them

It was during the 1964 U.S. Supreme Court case Jacobellis v. Ohio on hardcore pornographers that Justice Potter Stewart famously offered as a threshold test for obscenity: “I know it when I see it.”

Robyn Urback

Besides winning, what does a Liberal Party that will accept Marilyn Gladu actually stand for?

“The whole point of being an MP is to represent your constituents,” a Conservative MP told a local Ontario newspaper back in January, when she backed a call for automatic by-elections following an MP’s defection. “So if they’re voting you in under one platform,” she continued, “for you to switch for whatever reasons, just seems to me to not be...

Althia Raj

The future of the Senate’s decade-old experience with independence hangs in the balance

Down the street from the House of Commons, a parliamentary crisis unfolds. This drama doesn’t involve misconduct; the fate of Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government doesn’t hang in the balance. Most visibly, it’s a clash between senators who believe their duty is to act — to fully study government legislation and recommend changes — and others who believe they shouldn’t...

Andrew Coyne

Meet the new Senate, same as the old Senate

Almost since its inception, the Senate of Canada has been the subject of proposals for reform. Now there are the first faint stirrings of a new movement: Senate unreform. Ten years after Justin Trudeau introduced his “merit-based, non-partisan” process for appointing senators there are whispers that the whole thing might be about to be called off. The Globe and Mail...

John Ivison

Trump’s chief trade rep signals CUSMA is worth keeping

Jamieson Greer stands like Mount Olympus above the intellectual molehills of his cabinet-level colleagues, to such an extent that one worries for his welfare in the Trump administration. The U.S. Trade Representative spoke at the Hudson Institute think tank on Tuesday, and such was his coherence it was almost possible to set aside that his boss had just threatened to...

Robin V. Sears

Canadians’ trust has been shattered. Here is how it can be rebuilt

One voter expectation trumps all others today: trust. You can be charismatic, intelligent, a good orator and attractive, but if voters don’t feel confident that you are worthy of their trust, go home.

Lisa Van Dusen

Donald Trump is Not a Failed President

As the world absorbed this morning the good news that Persian civilization has not been obliterated per an apparent nuclear threat issued by an American president to end an avoidable war he started, the question remains of “What just happened?”. In superficial terms, what just happened was an unjustified war in the Middle East launched by an American president acting...

Paul Wells

Why Pierre Poilievre Suddenly Won’t Stop Talking

The dam has burst. Rigid messaging is ending. Long live the give-and-take of conversation. SUDDENLY, OUR POLITICS is all about the written and spoken word. Not so long ago, we had a prime minister who did his best to hide for weeks and an opposition leader who refused to take reporters with him on a national campaign. Now, the newish...

Robyn Urback

Canada’s Supreme Court has given youths sentenced as adults a ‘get-out-of-prison-early’ pass

Last summer, Canada’s Supreme Court sent an inadvertent message to all young offenders in Canada: you will almost certainly never be sentenced as an adult. Even before the Court released its judgement in R v. I.M., which changed the standard for which youth can be sentenced as adults, it was already true that young offenders would be treated more leniently...

Andrew Perez

The NDP had its moment — and missed it

There are always moments in politics when the conditions align for a breakthrough. When public frustration, economic uncertainty and political realignment create an opening for a party to redefine itself and capture the national mood. Since Prime Minister Mark Carney took over the helm of the federal Liberal Party more than a year ago, we’ve witnessed a sweeping transformation of...

Matt Gurney

Donald Trump has backed himself into a corner on Iran. He now has three choices

The most basic problem now confronting Donald Trump isn’t a matter of complex geopolitics. It’s more a simple matter of talent. The U.S. president, as much as many people hate to admit it, does have some real talents. He’s a natural showman. He’s a talented negotiator. And, as commander in chief of the world’s greatest military, he has a lot...

Susan Delacourt

Donald Trump has his own reasons to put 51st-state talk on the back burner

Donald Trump’s views on Canadian sovereignty appear to be constantly in motion, weaving back and forth like his social-media feed. Thanks to a British author, we learned this week that all the 51st-state talk is now on the back burner for two reasons: one lies in Trump’s respect for King Charles, and, maybe more significantly, the president doesn’t have enough...

Fred Delorey

Labour isn't working (for the NDP) anymore

If you want to understand the real tragedy of the recent NDP leadership convention, don’t just look at the winner (which I’ve done). Look at the wreckage of the coalition left behind on the convention floor. Historically, the NDP was built on a very specific, carefully balanced three-legged stool: the eco-radical hippies (your vegans and pipeline protesters), the out-of-touch champagne...

Gillian Steward

Danielle Smith widens her attacks to stay in power

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith just can’t seem to stop satisfying her demanding, needy base with one gift after another. Public libraries, the heart of every community, are the latest to be attacked. Her government introduced legislation last week that would make it difficult for young people to get hold of what it calls “pornographic” material they think young people shouldn’t...

John Ivison

Liberals shove Canada into China’s menacing embrace

Canada’s finance minister was in Beijing late last week looking to deepen financial sector ties with China. Francois-Philippe Champagne said he was building on the strategic partnership deal signed between Prime Minister Mark Carney and Chinese President Xi Jinping “with eyes wide open.”

Susan Delacourt

A big week looms for Mark Carney and his ‘new’ Liberals

Mark Carney seemed especially keen last week to quash any speculation that he intended to shut down Parliament and deliver a new throne speech in the near future. “It has never even entered my thinking, the possibility of that,” Carney replied, when asked about the rumours, which first appeared in The Globe and Mail.

Éric-Antoine Ménard

Terrebonne: Bleu Country, Red Moment?

The last time a Liberal represented Terrebonne in Ottawa, Jimmy Carter was in the White House and a 9-year-old named Justin Trudeau spent his days running around the grounds at 24 Sussex. Provincially, the Liberal Party of Quebec last won it in 1973. That’s not just trivia. It tells you how unnatural this moment is.

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Raffy Boudjikanian

Canada pushing for Lebanon inclusion into ceasefire deal: source

Prime minister has said deal must include end of hostilities in Lebanon. Ottawa is pushing for Lebanon to be part of the ceasefire deal between the Trump administration and Iran and for its inclusion to be honoured by Israel, a senior Liberal source told CBC News. Canada is one of "many countries trying to push for Lebanon," said the source...

Spencer Van Dyk

Plenty of ‘unhappy people’ in Conservative caucus: floor-crossing MP d’Entremont

Liberal MP Chris d’Entremont, who crossed the floor from the Conservatives in November, says current Conservative MPs have “absolutely” asked him what it’s like being a Liberal. “They want to know what the caucus structure is, what we talk about, what kind of input that we have in decision making,” d’Entremont told host Mike Le Couteur in an interview on...

Erik Hertzberg

Canadians Back Gas Tax Cuts as Top Response to Oil Price Spike, Poll Finds

Canadians rank cutting fuel taxes as the No. 1 action Prime Minister Mark Carney should take to offset higher gasoline prices. Nearly 39% of respondents listed a reduction in fuel-related taxes as their preferred course of action from the federal government, according to a Nanos Research Group survey for Bloomberg News. Increasing “investment in long-term energy alternatives” was the second...

Matthew Black

Alberta UCP not making early gas tax cut as Poilievre appeals for federal fuel break

The Alberta government reiterated Wednesday that it will not be removing its provincial gas tax before Canada Day at the soonest, as federal Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre called on the federal government to suspend its own levies drivers pay at the pump. Poilievre made the appeal via an open letter to Prime Minister Mark Carney published Tuesday afternoon on social...

Catharine Tunney

Liberals descend on Montreal for convention on the cusp of a majority government

Liberals are gathering in Montreal for the next few days, buzzing on a fifth floor-crossing and with a sought-after majority government in sight. While the official agenda is dotted with panels, speakers, policy discussions and campaign training, the three byelections set for Monday are expected to dominate conversations at the three-day event. The party is hoping those races will not...

Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu says she's joining Carney's Liberal government

Ontario MP Marilyn Gladu left the Conservative caucus to join Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals on Wednesday, pushing the government closer to a majority ahead of three byelections next week. Carney welcomed her to the caucus in a meeting at his office Wednesday afternoon. "I couldn't be happier," he said alongside a smiling Gladu. He said Gladu was "one of...

Ryan Tumilty

Why 173 seats — and not needing the Speaker’s vote — matters to the Liberals

Ontario Conservative MP Marilyn Gladu’s floor crossing gives the Liberals a virtual lock on a majority, and one that would allow them to do far more than simply survive confidence votes — because not all majorities are created equal. Two of the three April 13 contests — in the Toronto ridings of University–Rosedale and Scarborough Southwest — are widely considered...

Kyle Duggan

Liberal huddle for 1st big policy convention without Trudeau

Liberal party members are gathering in Montreal and, for the first time in more than a decade, Justin Trudeau and his personal brand of politics won't tower over the party's proceedings. Party faithful will gather as Mark Carney's ever-expanding big tent of MPs stands on the cusp of achieving a majority government following a series of floor-crossings in Parliament. The...

Carney praises Hansen, calls hearing French from space a point of pride

Prime Minister Mark Carney praised astronaut Jeremy Hansen during a call with the Artemis II crew on Wednesday, saying he was proud to see a Canadian in space and to hear French spoken. Carney called the mission "hugely inspiring" and said Canadians couldn't be more proud of Hansen and the collaboration with the United States. "We look forward to seeing...

Rahim Mohamed

Support for Alberta separatism at a 5-year high: poll

Pollara chief strategy officer Dan Arnold says the numbers are likely a reflection that separation talk is becoming more mainstream

Annie Bergeron-Oliver

What to expect at the Liberals’ national convention

Thousands of Liberals are arriving in Montreal for their annual convention with a spring in their step following news of a fifth-floor crosser in just over five months. The 2026 Montreal convention was advertised as an opportunity to chart the party’s course. Liberal strategists expect the three-day convention will focus less on policy and more on building momentum ahead of...

Stuart Benson

Liberal convention expected to be careful with policy amid byelection buzz and further floor-crossing rumours

The policy debate at the Grits' upcoming convention seems intentionally designed to avoid being a distraction from the party’s core messaging as it sits on the cusp of a majority, but it's also not time for a victory lap, say observers. As Liberals from across Canada descend on Montreal this week, observers expect the party’s national convention to be light...

Campbell MacDiarmid

Deputy minister broke rules by hiring unqualified acquaintance: ethics watchdog

Deputy minister of national defence Christiane Fox broke conflict of interest rules by hiring an old acquaintance when she was the deputy immigration minister, the federal ethics watchdog has found. Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von Finckenstein published an investigation on Wednesday finding that Fox improperly influenced her department to hire Björn Charles in March 2023. Fox sent...

Tonda MacCharles, Raisa Patel

Up to 40 Conservative MPs fear Pierre Poilievre will cost them their seats, insiders say

Dissatisfaction and worries about their future under Poilievre’s leadership has many questioning whether or not a bolder move to spark change is required. Up to 40 Conservative MPs are worried that they could lose their seats if Pierre Poilievre leads the party into the next election against Liberal Prime Minister Mark Carney, said two federal Conservative sources after the party...

Catherine Morrison

Almost 4,000 federal public servants apply for early retirement program

Thousands of federal public servants have applied for early retirement since the program was launched late last month. Mohammad Kamal, spokesperson for the Office of the President of the Treasury Board, says 3,700 federal workers have applied for the program. The program, which was announced in the fall, is part of the government's efforts to reduce the number of public...

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon, threatening ceasefire

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again Wednesday in response to Israeli attacks against the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon, casting doubt over whether an already precarious ceasefire to end more than a month of war will hold. The United States and Iran both claimed victory after reaching the agreement, and world leaders expressed relief, even as more drones and...

The Canadian Press

Carney, European leaders welcome reported Iran-U.S. ceasefire in joint statement

Prime Minister Mark Carney and nine European leaders issued a joint statement Wednesday saying they welcome the reported two-week ceasefire between the United States and Iran. The deal was announced Tuesday evening after President Donald Trump threatened that "a whole civilization" would "die" if a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz -- a crucial shipping lane -- was not...

Canadian Press Staff

Poilievre's communications director Katy Merrifield resigns

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre's communications director Katy Merrifield is resigning. Merrifield announced her departure in an email sent to the Conservative caucus Tuesday, adding her last day working in the Opposition Leader's Office will be Friday. The message says Micah Green will become the new communications director and Sam Lilly will be the new media relations director.

Judy Trinh

‘No risk’ of potential conflict with Champagne’s partner working for Alto: ethics commissioner

The office of the federal ethics commissioner says Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne’s personal relationship with a senior manager at the Crown corporation responsible for building high-speed rail does not constitute a conflict of interest. In an email seen by CTV News, an adviser from the Office of the Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner (OCIEC) stated that “there is no...

Stephanie Taylor

Feds to restructure fund for combating disinformation, end program for hiring diverse journalists

The federal government says it will not renew funding next year for an initiative launched to help hire more diverse journalists and support those entering the screen industry. It says changes will also be coming to a program dedicated to funding projects meant to help combat online disinformation, with several millions in grants to be held back. The cuts come...

Sarah Ritchie

'We are fighting to win' in Terrebonne, Liberals say as government eyes majority

OTTAWA -- Thousands of Liberals will be in Montreal this weekend for the party's annual convention just as voters in the suburban riding of Terrebonne, about 40 km north, get ready to cast ballots in a key byelection on Monday.

Murray Brewster

As drones upend tank warfare, Canada's army races to rethink its armour

The Canadian military is studying what kind of tanks and armoured troop carriers it will need in the future and how quickly those projects can and will be advanced, says the commander of the army. An internal presentation, delivered to a closed-door audience in the United Kingdom last winter, suggested the timelines for buying new armoured fighting vehicles (AFVs) and...

Janyce McGregor

EV giant BYD accused of forced labour violations at European factory

China Labour Watch interviewed 50 workers at BYD facility in Hungary. As Canada lowers its tariffs and imports more electric vehicles from China, an upcoming report from New York-based labour rights researchers is making new allegations of forced labour practices at the world's bestselling EV manufacturer, BYD. China Labor Watch (CLW) received a complaint last fall from one of the...

Emma Godmere

'Every vote counts': Liberals campaign hard for Quebec seat in Monday's federal byelection

Housing minister says 'we can get a lot done' with a win in Terrebonne. Federal Liberals are throwing all they can at the Quebec riding of Terrebonne ahead of Monday's byelection, sending more than 25 MPs and members of cabinet in recent weeks to pound the pavement in what one minister is calling a "consequential" race. "We can get a...

Rahim Mohamed

Federal deficit could top $100B by 2035, economist warns

One of Canada’s leading economists is warning that the country’s already historic federal deficit is on pace to top $100 billion in the next decade. University of Calgary economist Trevor Tombe writes in a new study for the Montreal Economic Institute that, if current fiscal policy holds, the baseline federal deficit will grow to $117 billion by 2035.

U.S., Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire though some attacks continue

Iran, the United States and Israel agreed to a two-week ceasefire, an 11th-hour deal that allowed U.S. President Donald Trump to pull back from his threat to unleash a bombing campaign that would destroy Iranian civilization. Hours after the announcement, Iran and Gulf Arab countries reported new attacks Wednesday. It was not clear if the sporadic attacks would be enough...

Elizabeth Thompson

Conservatives call for ethics probe of Champagne as questions raised over high-speed rail

Finance minister's partner is a VP of company running government-funded project. The Conservative Party is calling on the House of Commons ethics watchdog to launch an investigation into whether Finance Minister François-Philippe Champagne breached ethics rules regarding his partner's involvement in a federal government-funded high speed rail project. In a letter to Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Konrad von...

David Baxter

Pivotal Terrebonne byelection sees preliminary 20% voter turnout in advance polls

Almost 38,000 people voted in the advance polls in three byelections that could give Prime Minister Mark Carney's Liberals a majority government, with the highest advance turnout in Terrebonne. Preliminary data from Elections Canada says 18,200 people in the Quebec riding cast ballots in advance elections, which amounts to almost 20 per cent of people on the voters' list. The...

Mackenzie Gray, Jillian Piper

Ottawa in talks with ‘all provinces’ to cut GST on new homes: minister

A week after the federal and Ontario governments announced they would cut the HST for new homes bought in Ontario for a year, the federal housing minister said he is in talks to expand the initiative. “We are in discussions with all of the provinces and territories about taking down the GST for one year on new home purchases,” Housing...

Spencer Van Dyk

U.S. trade rep says unlikely CUSMA review deadline will be met

U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer says while it’s unlikely the U.S. administration will hash out all of its trade issues with Canada and Mexico by July 1, he’s optimistic they’ll be resolved as soon as possible. “I think that we aren’t probably going to be able to resolve all issues by July 1, but I think we are on track...

US Poli

Joey Cappelletti, The Associated Press

What one campaign rally in Michigan reveals about young voters ahead of the midterm elections

ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) -- As students banged on desks and stomped their feet inside a packed lecture hall at the University of Michigan, someone decades older stood in the back, quietly taking in the scene.

Nicholas Riccardi, The Associated Press

Era of political violence means higher costs for candidate security, a new report says

Security spending for congressional and presidential campaigns has jumped fivefold over the past decade as an increasingly hostile political environment has led to escalating threats against public officials, ranging from doxing to assassination plots, according to a report released Thursday.

Ali Swenson, The Associated Press

RFK Jr is launching a podcast to expose 'lies' that have made Americans sick

NEW YORK (AP) -- Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is launching a new podcast that he says will begin "a new era of radical transparency in government," according to a teaser video first obtained by The Associated Press.

Michelle L. Price, The Associated Press

Trump uses the language of annihilation to threaten Iran ahead of deadline

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The president who yearned for a Nobel Peace Prize and once reveled in the appearance of solving conflicts has turned to the language of annihilation as he struggles to find a resolution to his war of choice in Iran.

International

Raffy Boudjikanian

Canada pushing for Lebanon inclusion into ceasefire deal: source

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz again in response to Israeli attacks in Lebanon, threatening ceasefire

The Canadian Press

Carney, European leaders welcome reported Iran-U.S. ceasefire in joint statement

U.S., Israel and Iran agree to a 2-week ceasefire though some attacks continue

Nick Murray

Carney reiterates call to respect international law as Trump threatens 'civilization'

Prime Minister Mark Carney said leaders involved in the war in Iran must "choose their words" and act prudently, while not specifically criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump for his recent inflammatory threats of potential American military action. Trump said in a post on Tuesday that "a whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again" if a deal...

Think Tank

Dr. Xiaowen Zhang, Dr. Weisu Yu

Canada–China Trade in 2025: Structural Shifts and Emerging Dynamics

This report provides a detailed assessment of Canada's bilateral merchandise trade with China for 2025 — a year defined by structural shifts in export composition from agriculture toward energy and minerals, sharply bifurcated import outcomes as tariff-targeted goods contracted while industrial inputs proved resilient, and persistent geographic concentration and uneven regional distribution. Situating bilateral flows within Canada's broader trade performance...

Dan Ciuriak

Negotiating CUSMA on a Dog Day Afternoon

ICYMI, things aren’t going so good for The Donald. In the “you broke it, you bought it” department, he’s trying to offload a property (the Iran War), bought on spec and not living up to promise, onto a new set of investors (specifically naming China, France, Japan, and South Korea). Turns out they aren’t all that interested in the property...

Murtaza Haider, Peter Copeland

Housing affordability requires increased construction productivity, not just more workers

Substacks

A collection of SubStack publishing within Canadian public affairs.

Dean Beeby

Complaining about access-to-info complaints

Prime Minister Mark Carney’s office wants to bust up a monopoly. I think I’m the target. Let me explain. The Privy Council Office (PCO), home of the prime minister and cabinet, has been flooded with complaints about its failures to comply with the Access to Information Act.

Steven Staples

Canada takes a big step toward troops in Iran war

Canadian troops may be only days away from deploying to the Middle East to aid the U.S.’s and Israel’s war on Iran. The latest indication is a joint statement expressing concern about Iran’s restriction of oil tankers through the narrow Strait of Hormuz signed by Prime Minister Mark Carney and NATO allies late in the week.

Dean Beeby

CRA's popular tax-amnesty program

Canadians who have neglected to pay their taxes to the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) have been coming forward in droves to take advantage of new amnesty rules.

Podcasts

Groceries, airfare and EVs: the war is changing how we spend

After the U.S., Israel and Iran agreed to a ceasefire on Tuesday night, oil prices eased on Wednesday. Many details of the ceasefire remain unclear – including when and how the Strait of Hormuz will become passable again. Since the effective closure of the Strait, the rising cost of oil has been impacting prices across a number of industries –...

The global fallout from Trump's new world order

A barely-existent ceasefire, and the paralysis of hundreds of ships. The state of the Iran - US Israel war remains muggy, even a day after the three agreed to a two-week ceasefire and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. It comes after US President Trump threatened to wipe out 'an entire civilization' if the strait wasn't opened. And although...

Another MP crosses floor to Liberals ahead of Monday's byelections

It was rumoured to be in the offing, but on Wednesday news came of the surprising floor-crossing of Sarnia—Lambton—Bkejwanong MP Marilyn Gladu from the Conservatives to the Liberals, putting Mark Carney’s government even closer to a majority. We started the podcast unaware of the news, but we eventually offer some hot takes on the crossing minutes after it was announced...

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